The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-01-13
The Criminal Calender

| i1ev0d the same forces which captured the
boundary commissioners also perpetrated
these outrsges.
The OrIminal Calender.
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 6.-The Adams ex-
press robbers, Fred Wittroek, W. W.
Haight and Thomas Weaver were taken
10 the penitentiary to-day. They were
transported to Jefferson city by an earlier
| train thAn was expected, bus notWith-
standing that, large crowd coDgTeRAted
at the railway station to see them OF. As
| the train pulled ont a number Of United
States express employees joined in Civ
| ing three cheers tor 1'Jim Cummings. -
The trip to Jefferson City was unevent-
tut and after the usual preliminariss at
| the penitenti6ry the prisoners were
placed in separate cells. They viii be
put 10 working in q day or two.
| TO TESTIFY AGAINST FOTHERINGHAM.
Dan MOTIarty, in charge OF Q eInkeE-
ton detective, arrived from Kansas City
this morning. He tells the same story
about his connection with the robbery
| as he had told before, except that he adds
the detail that when he wrote to Witt
| rock refusing TO have anything to do
| with the scheme, the latter answered him
| thar there was ABSOLUTELY no danger, as
| he had the messenger fixed all right. He
emphatically denied t'hsVing squeAled."
It Is supposed that he will not be prose.
| cuted, aud that he wss brought here to
testify in the coming trial against
FotherinRham.
COUNTERFETTER SENTENCED.
Judge Treat To-day in the United
| States district court sentenced Joseph 81.
| White OF Waco, Texas, who has been in
jail here since August, 1856, on charge
| preferred By the United States govern
meat OF cOunterfeiting Brazilian treas
ury notes, TO three years in the pepiten-
| tiary. His brother, Lucino White, who
| turned states eV oence, and who has
also been in jsil here will be released.
CHARGED WITH MURDER.
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 6-The cOroner'e jury,
| which has been investigating the circum-
stances under which Laura VArley came
TO her death, returned q verdict this
afternoon that her death resulted from
injuries received by being burned by a
| fire caused by her coming in contact with
| red hot stove in the room of Henry
Marshal, q colored cOachmsn, while she
was attempting to escape from him, be
at the time trying TO make q criminal
assault upon her. Marshal was held re-
sponsible for her death. Lena Stumpf,
who was promised 81 Oy the cOachmap
| for every girl whom she should bring to
hisrOOm and who brought the deceased
to the stable on the day Of her death, wss
held responsible as an accessory before
and after the fact.
INTEREST INCREASING.
WYANDOTTE, Kas., Jan 6.-The evil
deDce was closed in Hamilton's trial to-
day and the argument will begin to- NOR
row. Several additional Witnesses were
called to prove an alibi for the prisoner.
The wife of Robert Geers, another Of the
accused, corobOrrated the statement that
Geers sat up with young man named
Sparks on the night of the wreck. Mrs.
Mcmillan, Sparks lSndlady, testified to
tue same effect. In the afternoon the
s'ate introduced several witnesses IN re-
buttal. George A. Fowler, the detective,
known as brother Alfred" reiterated
biz former testimony. II was expected
that Mayor Harmon would take the stand
again but he did not appear. The inter-
est Increases as the trial approaches its
end, and but few have the confidence to
predict the nature OF the verdict. The
court room ie crowded at every session.
The case will go TO the jury on Satur
day.
MURDERER's CONFESSION.
BOSTON, Mass, Jan. 6.-JAmes e,
Nuw.en, who WAS arrested in connection
with the Goldman murder this morning,
has made full confession He said he
was the only one concerned in the muir
der, and the other prisoner has been dis
charged. Nowlen says he killed young
Goldman ct 3 O'Clock Tuesday morning by
stabbing him in the back OF the neck
with . carving knife. The deed was
done in CodmAn's stables. Later IN the
day he eus the clothes off the body,
chopped the left leg and right arm OF
and started with the corpse in his wagon
for the country. At the spot in Lexing-
ton where the head WAS found he dropped
it in the middle OF the road and then
threw the arm out. He returned to Som
erville by going through W0ltham by
m PQAQha6 la
at 5 O'Clock Tuesday morning.
A MYSTERY SOLVED.
KANSAS CITY, Jan. Ga Times, Han
nibal, Mo-, spe ial says: Judson 9.
Armstrong, q wealthy farmer, was found
murdered near Odessa, Mo, In July,
1884. Il now transpires that convicted
robber on his death bed in the Missouri
| that he murdered Armstrong and robbed
the body of few hundred dollars and
then left il on the railroad track, where il
was found run over by train.
LEADERS CONFESSION.
Sioux CITY, Iowa, Jan. 6-Paul Leader,
on c of the parties under indictment for
the murder of Rev. Geo. @. HaddOck,
made an oral statement to reporter last
evening, being the first time he has been
| induced to say anything about the crime
He says frankly that he was present at the
| time of the murder and knows the names
| OF all parties there. As has been stated
before the party had gathered in Junk's
| saloon that evening to await the return OF
| Paddock who had gone to the
outskirts of the city to get evidence
| in iuiunctiOn suits. The crowd started
| out TO walk briskly to the corner where
the crime was to be committed, and there
awaited the preachers coming. Leader
| was il company with friend, whose
| name he declined to give, and walked
| more leisureIy, arriving after the rest had
stopped. They hesItsted only moment
| and seeing that mere was to be trouble,
passed the crowd. AMI when about hun
bred feet away heard shot and turning
| around saw Haddock staRger and fall, and
saw the man who fired The shot run north
up Water street, and not across the bridge.
Leader will not say what his name Is
Leader says ArensdOrt was not in the
crowd, and of this fact he Is very en-
phNtlc, He also ssys that Otto Greuber
who claims to have been standing on the
opposite corner, was not IN the vicinity
and that his testimony Is false. This
! story is the first that has been given point
ing to LeavItt as the guilty party.
WAVES EXAMINATION.
KANSAS CITY. Jan. 6-Oscar Cook
one of the Cummings gang, was brough
, before the recorder this afternoon on th'
charge of receiving stolen money. h
waived examination and was bound owe
to await the grand iry's action. In de-
fault OF bail, SO ,00C, he was taken bacI
to Jail.
YOUTHFUL MURDERDR.
ST. LOUIS, No., Jan. IA special from
Jackson, Tennessee. TO the Post Dispatcl
says: Schott Picker, twelve years of eg
!, last night shot and killed Chester Dodd
; ten years of age, son of 6 prominent citi
zen of this city. The two had quarrele
: | over some trivial matter and the older DO
got the worst of il. He went home an
/. | procured q shotgun and then sought OF
!. his enemy and shot him.
BAIL REDUCED.
ST. LoUs, Jan. TN the criminal cou
to-day the counsel for Fotheringham ar
piled for q reduction OF his clients bal
Ie who was indicted on two charges, that
Ia grand larceny and that of receiving stole
;, property. The court fxfd the bail
IL each case at $500 The original amour
lie was $40, 000. $4,000 in each case.
nt ARGUMENTS COMMENCED.